Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | mailman vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-59-1 | First vendor Publication | 2005-01-10 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2005-01-10 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) The following packages are affected: mailman The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.1.5-1ubuntu2.2. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Florian Weimer discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in mailman's automatically generated error messages. An attacker could craft an URL containing JavaScript (or other content embedded into HTML) which triggered a mailman error page. When an unsuspecting user followed this URL, the malicious content was copied unmodified to the error page and executed in the context of this page. Juha-Matti Tapio discovered an information disclosure in the private rosters management. Everybody could check whether a specified email address was subscribed to a private mailing list by looking at the error message. This bug was Ubuntu/Debian specific. Important note: There is currently another known vulnerability: when an user subscribes to a mailing list without choosing a password, mailman automatically generates one. However, there are only about 5 million different possible passwords which allows brute force attacks. A different password generation algorithm already exists, but is currently too immature to be put into a stable release security update. Therefore it is advisable to always explicitly choose a password for subscriptions, at least until this gets fixed in Warty Warthog. See https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/4892 for details. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-59-1 |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11113 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11113 | ||
| Title: | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the driver script in mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL, which is not properly escaped in the resulting error page. | ||
| Description: | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the driver script in mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL, which is not properly escaped in the resulting error page. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2004-1177 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 CentOS Linux 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CentOS Linux 4 Oracle Linux 4 | Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-10-10 | Name : SLES9: Security update for mailman File : nvt/sles9p5018754.nasl |
| 2008-09-24 | Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200501-29 (mailman) File : nvt/glsa_200501_29.nasl |
| 2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: mailman, ja-mailman File : nvt/freebsd_mailman4.nasl |
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 674-1 (mailman) File : nvt/deb_674_1.nasl |
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 674-2 (mailman) File : nvt/deb_674_2.nasl |
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 674-3 (mailman) File : nvt/deb_674_3.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 14941 | Mailman scripts/driver Error Message XSS |
| 12856 | Mailman Private Roster Management Arbitrary Subscription Verification Mailman contains a flaw that may lead to an unauthorized information disclosure. The issue is triggered when a malicious user sends a special request, resulting in an error message which will disclose subscription status information regarding a particular email address resulting in a loss of confidentiality. |
| 12855 | Mailman Automatic Password Generation Weakness Mailman contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to determine a user's password. The issue is triggered when a malicious user attempts to brute force an account with the five million possible passwords. It is possible that the flaw may allow unauthorized access resulting in a loss of confidentiality. |
| 12854 | Mailman Error Page XSS Mailman contains a flaw that allows a remote cross site scripting attack. This flaw exists because the application does not validate variables upon submission to scripts/driver when returning error pages. This could allow a user to create a specially crafted URL that would execute arbitrary code in a user's browser within the trust relationship between the browser and the server, leading to a loss of integrity. |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2006-01-15 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-59-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-09-12 | Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2005-242.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-07-13 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates. File : freebsd_pkg_b3cd00f7c0c5452d87bc086c5635333e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-05-19 | Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2005-241.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-03-21 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update. File : redhat-RHSA-2005-235.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-02-14 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-200501-29.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-02-14 | Name : The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch File : suse_SA_2005_007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-02-10 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-674.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-01-25 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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| 2014-02-17 12:04:59 |
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| 2013-05-11 12:26:12 |
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